... regarding social sustainability decisions, as well as in studies that combine sustainability outcomes with risk. Our aim is to understand the relationship between gender and decision behaviour regarding socially sustainable procurement, particularly in the context of ambiguous information on social...

...Rahul Pandey; Dipanjan Chatterjee; Manus Rungtusanatham Purpose In this paper, the authors introduce supply disruption ambiguity as the inability of a sourcing firm to attach probability point estimates to the occurrence of and to the magnitude of loss from supply disruptions. The authors...

... ambiguity to avoid timely action on modern slavery in their supply chains A set of propositions are developed. Findings The authors elaborate the concepts of time and change in socially sustainable supply chains and illustrate how firms use ambiguity in TISC statements as a highly strategic form...

...Saileshsingh Gunessee; Nachiappan Subramanian Purpose The first purpose of this paper is to situate and conceptualise ambiguity in the operations management (OM) literature, as connected to supply chain decision-making (SCDM). The second purpose is to study the role of ambiguity-coping mechanisms...